[5253] in testers
emacs: cursor-in-non-selected-windows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sat Jun 29 02:39:36 2002
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From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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One thing that bugs me about emacs 21 is the way shadow cursors are
visible in inactive windows. There is a variable that is supposed
to turn these off (cursor-in-non-selected-windows), but emacs 21.1
forgets to check the variable when prompting the user for y-or-n-p
input from the minibuffer, and so the cursors pop up from time to
time.
I don't want to see them ever. Emacs 21.2 fixed the oversight, the
attached patch is the three lines from v21.2's xterm.c that will
make cursor-in-non-selected-windows work properly. I'm submitting
it in the hope that you'll consider putting it in the release.
I've tested the patch on a 9.1 linux machine, running emacs with
src/emacs -q --no-site-file
and then evaluating the elisp:
(setq cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)
(y-or-n-p "Can you see a shadow cursor? ")
-Jake
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--- xterm.c.orig Fri Jun 28 00:36:12 2002
+++ xterm.c Fri Jun 28 00:36:14 2002
@@ -11506,8 +11506,10 @@
{
if (w == XWINDOW (echo_area_window))
new_cursor_type = FRAME_DESIRED_CURSOR (f);
- else
+ else if (cursor_in_non_selected_windows)
new_cursor_type = HOLLOW_BOX_CURSOR;
+ else
+ new_cursor_type = NO_CURSOR;
}
else
{
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